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"Me like 'm rum." Grief shook his head. "Tambo along black fella." "He black fella no tambo," Koho retorted, nodding toward the groaning labourer. "He fella sick," Grief explained. "Me fella sick." "You fella big liar," Grief laughed. "Rum tambo, all the time tambo. Now, Koho, we have big fella talk along this big fella mar-ster."
"Ugh, he's too dirty. I'd rather give him a bath. Here, you, Adamu Adam, give this devil-devil a wash. Soap and water! Fill that wash-tub. Ornfiri, run and fetch 'm scrub-brush." The Tahitians, back from their fishing and grinning at the bedlam of the compound, entered into the joke. "Tambo!
If you have any snow, it will be on Broadsaddle; but it won't signify. You go round the low side of Tambo, and sight the lake, and you'll be there before him." "How far?" "Sixty miles, or thereabouts, plain sailing. It ain't eleven o'clock yet." "Good; I'll remember you for this. Buckley, I want your horse. Is the lad dead?" "No; but he is very bad. I'll try to get him home.
They chanced upon this creature while he was engaged in plundering a field of Indian corn quite close to a "tambo," or traveller's shed, where they had put up for the night. It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him.
Near by, I saw some Indian huts and the tambo or tavern where Frank Dunn and I had stopped on our way to Puno. The child ran ahead, leaving me to follow. The first sight of Puno had satisfied me that we had come to the most desolate spot in the world, Nature's remains seemed to have been brought there and left without burial.
And the moon sailed on westward, smoothly, steadily measuring off the silent hours of the night watch. Then all at once every nerve in him strained toward the back of the tambo. Something was there! He had not heard it seen it smelled it but he felt it; a nameless thing that did not belong there. With smooth speed he pivoted, looked, listened. Nothing there.
A few days before the arrival of this military expedition, and others that followed under command of General Merritt, Admiral Dewey sent his Secretary to my Government to ask me to grant permission for the stationing of American troops in Tambo and Maytubig, Paranaque and Pasay.
"They are those of unfortunate people who were attempting to escape from the Godos," observed Padillo. "The mountains hereabouts are full of the skeletons of those who have thus perished. But Heaven will punish our oppressors." All we saw must have died on their first day's journey across the Paramo. Those only who had strong mules, or who had found shelter in the tambo, could have escaped.
After the Indian had been some time convulsed he fell into a profound slumber, when his friends covered him up carefully with their mantles and left him. Our meal was scarcely over when the clattering of horses' feet was heard on the road, and by the sound I judged that a band of horsemen had ridden up to the tambo. Our Indian host rushed out with dismay on his countenance.
The liquid, he told us, was produced from a poisonous liana called tambo. This is cut up into lengths, washed, and soaked in water, which becomes thus impregnated with the juice. Before dinner was over, as we looked out on the pool we saw the surface covered with fish floating on their sides, with their gills wide open. The canoe then pushed off, and collected them in great numbers.
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